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You're going to be waiting for a long while. You won't be getting any answers, but plenty of excuses and justifications.

God cares about everyone and is all-powerful answer this question.

It's part of God's inscrutable plan that these kids get raped and stabbed to death, you don't have God's perspective and you can't judge him by human standards. He does have good reasons for letting that happen, we just can't understand them/it would violate free will.

Oh those hurricanes? It's to give a chance for other people to prove their morality by helping out.

Oh that eyeball-eating worm growing inside a 4-year old's head? That's because we disobeyed God, and the wages of sin is death. Don't worry for him, the more he suffers now, the less he'll suffer in the afterlife. Really, God is doing him a favour by not removing the worm.

And a thousand other twisted points that never really answer anything, they only give a pat answer to stop people from thinking it out themselves.